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Areal Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2020

16 areal flood warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of areal flood warnings reaches back to 2005.

Areal Flood Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Areal Flood Warnings
16
Busiest month
June15 areal flood warnings
Busiest day
June 22, 20206 areal flood warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 5:41 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBenton, Iowa, Johnson, Linn11 hr
Jun 9, 7:21 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan, Linn12 hr
Jun 9, 9:02 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette, Winneshiek27 hr
Jun 9, 10:38 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBuchanan12 hr
Jun 10, 10:31 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBuchanan48 hr
Jun 10, 2:20 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBenton, Linn24 hr
Jun 22, 2:30 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXGrundy, Marshall, Tama24 hr
Jun 22, 2:42 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXButler, Franklin19 hr
Jun 22, 7:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXHardin, Marshall24 hr
Jun 22, 9:58 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan24 hr
Jun 22, 10:20 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Tama24 hr
Jun 22, 11:13 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXTama24 hr
Jun 22, 9:56 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningDVNLinn12 hr
Jun 23, 2:31 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXGrundy, Tama12 hr
Jun 23, 10:24 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Grundy, Tama24 hr
Oct 22, 11:43 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningARXClayton, Fayette7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.